joep wrote: > I assume that there is some difference how subprocess.call and > subprocess.Popen handle and format the command. subprocess.Popen does > the correct formatting when only one file path has spaces and requires > double quoting, but not if there are two file paths with spaces in it.
The briefest of code explorations shows that subprocess.call simply hands straight off to Popen, passing args & kwargs along verbatim, and then calls .wait on the result. ie, this: subprocess.call (['a.exe', 'b.doc']) simply becomes: subprocess.Popen (['a.exe', 'b.doc']).wait () What I haven't investigated yet is whether the additional flags your example is passing (shell=True etc.) cause the main Popen mechanism to take a different path. I'll spend some time on that this pm, unless someone gets in first with more of a clue than I currently have. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
